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A couple of weeks ago, while sitting in church, I counted the number of electronic devices that people were using to read their bible off of. As you can guess, I am a regular church goer and hence I notice these sort of things and I am also a user of several e-devices and couldn't help noticing that sort of thing. I think I counted about 10-15 devices within the area I was sitting in.

It used to be that people would bring their Bibles and it was basically one or two different versions and now I don't know how many versions people are reading off of when I am listening to a sermon (knowing my church, it probably is still one or two versions, as we have switched to primarily ESV). Most people in church are probably reading off their iPhones or whatever smartphone they have, but there were a few that were that had their Bible on a tablet of some sort or an e-reader.

The availability of books on e-readers and tablets has changed the way people read and interact with books and …

Do you bring the book(s) you’re reading with you when you go out? How?Physically, or in an e-reader of some kind? Have your habits in thisregard changed? (I know I carried books with me more when I was inschool than I do now–I can’t read while I’m driving to work, afterall.)
It really depends on where I am going. If I am going somewhere where I know I won't likely be able to get any sort of reading done, I don't bring anything, just to resist the temptation. But since on one of my e-readers I have downloaded a Bible app onto it, the temptation is always going to be there. But for the most part I do bring a book with me, whether it be on one of my two e-readers (one is like a tablet and one is a more traditional e-reader) or a physical book. I even bring a book with me to church, in case I get bored with the sermon and need to concentrate on something else. My habits really haven't changed in bringing a book with me, because I n…

Can't believe that the end of September is already here and that in about a week and a half, Canadians will be taking part in the annual gorge fest that is Thanksgiving (Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving the second Monday in October).

Anyways, its been a couple of months since I last posted here, but life got in the way last month and I didn't do it (I think I forgot). At the moment I reading A Farewell to Arms for my book club and Wuthering Heights for a read-a-long, along with the usual books that I have been reading throughout the year. I am going to have A Farewell to Arms done by Saturday, well at least I hope so.

Before I start, I hope that everybody is having a nice, relaxing Sunday, whatever you are doing today.

I really don't know how to describe this week. The reason that I don't know how to describe the week is because I wasn't feeling well for most of it (got a nasty cold) and therefore didn't get much reading done this week, even though I did manage to get a book done yesterday, but most of the time I spent playing games on my Facebook account, hoping that I would be able to get out during the last of the warm weather out here on the west coast, which I was unable to do, due to the cold. But I am hoping that I can get some more reading this coming week.

On another front I signed up for Katrina's (Callapidder Days) Fall Into Reading 2012. I have been looking forward to this for some time and finally the sign up was available. I didn't put much down, as I know that most of the books that I will read during the next few months will be primarily those that I jus…

I have been looking forward to this for a number of weeks and had been thinking about it since sometime in late August. And now it is back! Yay!

This fall looks like a a busy reading few months for me, between the two books for my book club this fall and the Wuthering Heights readathon.

I also have library stuff I would like to read, but that is largely dependent on my due dates for the books and what else I have on my plate and it seems that with my e-reader, the list has grown even more.

Anyways, here are the books I am for sure planning on reading:

• A Farewell to Arms
• Wuthering Heights
• Mansfield Park

I am probably going to work on completing on these books as well:

• Bleak House
• Anna Karenina
• The Taming of the Shrew (just saw a production on Friday afternoon and would like to read the play)

But those aren't a sure thing that I will get them done, but who knows with my trip to Edmonton in the next few weeks.

Description: "Blindly, she inched along a floor pitching as violently as the deck of a boat in a midwinter storm. Her hands touched the threshold opening onto the ninth floor foyer at the instant the glass transom over her head exploded into a thousand pieces. Reflexively, Amelia cast her right arm in front of her face, but not before blood spurted from her scalp and ran down her checks. She crumpled beneath the doorframe, curling into a ball. Amelia screamed again as a twenty-five-foot expanse of wood paneling and masonry pitched outward and plunged nine stories to Montgomery Street below. She knew that no structure on landfill, no matter how well built, could withstand much more shaking without collapsing.Then, just as suddenly, the convulsions subsided." Early in 1906, the ground in …

Quick–what are you reading right now? (Other than this question onthis website, of course.) Would you recommend it? What’s it about?
As I post this, I am reading A Race to Splendor by Ciji Ware. Its a fairly quick read due to the fact that the action is fast-paced and fairly easy to read (language is fairly simple). Its about a woman, Amelia Bradshaw, and the rebuilding of her grandfather's hotel after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Since I have been working on it for a while, I don't know if I would at this point.

I am writing this latest Sunday Salon post when I am half-bagged and feeling like I should be in bed already. Anyways, as some of you know that I am reading Les Miserables this year and for some reason the reading of that particular book had somewhat stalled, well at least until this past week. For some reason I felt the urge to start it up again and managed to get Volume 2 completed. I am hoping that I can get Volume 3 done in a few weeks time, but what lands up on my plate in regards to books will say a lot about whether it happens or not. In the meantime, I am hoping to read The Taming of the Shrew, as I am going to see a performance of the play this coming week.

The question for this week is: What hyped up book do you think was not worth all the hype?
For me it was The Night Circus. I found that it was going back and forth quite a few times during the course of the book and felt that by the end that I really didn't care for the book at all.

• What are you currently reading?• What did you recently finish reading?• What do you think you'll be reading next?

Answers:1) What are you currently reading?• A Farewell to Arms• Anna Karenina• Bleak House• A Race to Splendor• Wuthering Heights• The Taming of the Shrew• Les Miserables• The Queen's Vow

2) What did you recently finish reading?Its been a while since I did this, so I am just going to list the last two that I just reviewed. If you wish to view what I have reviewed since late June, just go through the reviews, and you'll be up-to-date.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a fun weekly meme hosted by Shelia at Book Journey, in which we share what we've read and reviewed and what we plan on reading in the coming week.

A better week of reading last week; guess it was no coincidence that I was back at work this past week and on the bus and hence reading more than I have been this past summer. But all told didn't get as much as I wanted to, but that only means room for improvement.

What I reviewed this week:1) Fire by Kristin Cashore (review)2) The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau (review)

What I am planning on reading this week:• A Farewell to Arms• Anna Karenina• Bleak House• A Race to Splendor• Wuthering Heights• The Taming of the Shrew• Les Miserables

I realize that it seems like a lot, but I am not planning on completing every one of the books mention, with the exception of A Race to Splendor.

This week has seen me back to work and off vacation. Honestly, its nice to be back to work, as it also means that I will likely be reading more than I have been over the past couple of months, especially August, which saw me not complete a lot and feel discourage with my lack of completing books. While I was able to complete a few books during the month of August, it wasn't at a rate I had expected.

This past week saw me complete one book, but also getting a couple of reviews up and working on a number of books that I need to work on. I also hit 50 books read for the year and I still have about 3 months left until the end of the year. Guess I am getting my reading mojo back ;)

Description: Joanna Stafford, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake. Defying the sacred rule of enclosure, Joanna leaves the priory to stand at her cousin’s side. Arrested for interfering with the king’s justice, Joanna, along with her father, is sent to the Tower of London.

The ruthless Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, takes terrifying steps to force Joanna to agree to spy for him: to save her father’s life she must find an ancient relic—a crown so powerful, it may hold the ability to end the Reformation. Accompanied by two monks, Joanna returns home to Dartford Priory and searches in secret for this long-lost piece of history worn by the Saxon King Athelstan in 937 during the historic battle that first united Britain.

Description:It is not a peaceful
time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel
lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains
and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.

This
is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the
color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated
and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards
her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially
when she has so many of her own.

Then Prince Brigan comes to
bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the
plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize
there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could sa…

We all had to read things in school that we didn’t like … but whatabout something you read for a class that you ended up liking (orloving)? An author you discovered that you might not have found? A genre you hadn’t thought about?
I remember my Grade 11 English teacher chose A Tale of Two Cities for the final book of the year. I had only really read A Christmas Carol (okay, watch the Alastir Sim version of the movie), but hadn't really been exposed to anything significant of Dickens' work up until that book. I ended up loving the book and has ended up as being one of my favourite books. I actually read it a few years later and still enjoyed reading it and probably a little more so.

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and Bookish, where book bloggers share their Top Ten lists on everything bookish. This week its the top ten books that are going to make it on my Fall TBR list, even though Fall is still about a few weeks away, but whatever.

1) A Farewell to Arms - book for my bookclub meeting this coming September.

2) Mansfield Park - another bookclub meeting book for this coming fall.

3) Wuthering Heights - readalong selection for Unputdownables

4) Les Miserables - need to read more of the book so I can get it done by the end of the year

5) The last three books in the Harry Potter series - I have somewhat stalled on the Order of the Phoenix and would like to get the series completed by the end of the year.

6) Anna Karenina - would like to get this book done before the movie comes out this coming fall

7) Bleak House - same reason as Les Miserables

8) The Sweet Far Thing - I have been wanting to read the final book in the Gemma Doyle series and would like to get it done…

Overall, there were a couple of days that were great and considering everything, I did okay. I started reading Wuthering Heights on Saturday afternoon and haven't picked it up since, but I should be able to pick it up tomorrow and read what I need to before Friday morning.

I did get about a quarter of A Farewell to Arms completed and that I am happy with. Also I got a huge portion of The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau completed. I also got Fire by Kristen Cashore completed; now I just have write the review. And I also started a book that I picked up on Friday afternoon, At the Mercy of the Queen.

Considering that I just found out about the readathon the day before it was to start, I did okay and should set me up well for the rest of the week.

Have your ever considered writing a book before? What genre would you write?
I have considered writing a book a few times, but they never got beyond the idea stage. If I did write, it probably would be literary.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a fun weekly meme hosted by Shelia at Book Journey, in which we share what we've read and reviewed and what we plan on reading in the coming week.

That was a much more stressful week than I anticipated. Well, I guess without kids you can't feel much stress, but I suppose anxiousness is more like it.

I managed to get one book completed this week (still have to write that review), along with some reviews that needed to be put up from some books that I completed the week before.

What I reviewed this week:1) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (review)2) Lady of Milkweed by Julie Klassen (review)

What I am planning on reading this coming week:1) The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau2) Wuthering Heights3) Les Miserables4) A Farewell to Arms5) Anna Karenina and probably some others; just don't know what I will want to pick up...

August was a bit wacky, to say the least. I didn't read/review much this month and honestly I don't feel great about the month either.

Part of it had to do with the fact that I felt a lack of motivation to read, especially reading so much during July that I wanted to just take a bit of a break and before I knew it half the month had passed me by. A part of it also had to do with the fact that with the London Olympics going on, I didn't feel much motivation either to read; that and my days that I watched a lot of coverage didn't exactly start until about 2 p.m. Pacific, when live coverage had basically finished and there was nothing but repeats on.

My lack of reading was also partly the result of the weather, which for some strange reason couldn't decide whether it wanted to be really cruddy or really hot and couldn't for some reason be in the middle. Also included in this factor was that I was doing quite a bit of traveling and spending time in the car. W…

I am doing a readalong for September and October through Unputdownables. Its actually pretty an easy reading schedule, which I am going to post below. If you wish to join, you can click the cover and sign up. Be sure to read through the ENTIRE post, as they mention some things about the readalong that you will want to take note of. I hope that you will join me.

Post #/ date post should be up on blog: Start up Post/ Today!Week One/ September 7thWeek Two/ September 14thWeek Three/ September 21stWeek Four/ September 28thWeek Five/ October 5thWeek Six/ October 12thWeek Seven/ October 19thWeek Eight/ October 26th (Final Review)